Bournemouth takes Arsenal's Wilshere on season-long loan

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With one party desperate for first-team football, and the other determined to add some creativity to a mundane midfield, Bournemouth has signed Jack Wilshere on a season-long loan from Arsenal.

Wilshere meets up at Dean Court with boyhood friend and fellow Arsenal academy grad Benik Afobe. While that surely helped persuade Wilshere to join the club, Eddie Howe's fluid style of football is similar to that of Arsenal, and it should be a seamless switch for the 24-year-old midfielder.

Languishing behind the likes of Granit Xhaka, Mohamed Elneny, Francis Coquelin, Aaron Ramsey and Santi Cazorla, Wilshere was always going to have a tough time finding minutes in Arsene Wenger's squad this season.

Aware of the inevitability of an annual injury crisis, Gunners faithful will be hoping that a similar slew of ailments that necessitated Francis Coquelin's Dec. 2014 doesn't hamper this season's title ambitions.

Arsenal's youngest ever debutant at 16 years, 256 days, Wilshere joined the north London club in 2001 as an eight-year old, progressing through the academy ranks before making his first senior team appearance in 2008.

A 34-time capped England international, Wilshere has represented his country at four different youth levels before a maiden call-up in 2010 for a friendly against Hungary.

The move to the Cherries is Wilshere's second loan move after a successful spell with Bolton in 2010 prompted the midfielder's inclusion in Wenger's first team set-up the following season.